On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Martin Sustrik <sust...@250bpm.com> wrote:
> AFAIU the linking exception as defined in COPYING.LESSER is not longer > valid because people submit patches under LGPL for the last year or so. > Thus, iMatix can't grant any special exceptions. This is not quite how it works. Note that the LGPL is itself constructed as an exception to the GPL. When you submit a modification of a work that is licensed under the LGPL+exception that modification is licensed the same way. > The question remains what is the exception good for anyway. It doesn't > seem to grant any special rights that LGPL doesn't grant in the first place. The default LGPL requires that you either (a) use only a dynamic library or (b) release your entire app as (L)GPL. The static linking exception does what it says, it lets you link libzmq into static executables. This was originally required for iOS but also used by people on other systems. Removing this would be damaging to use of 0MQ, and would break the existing contract we have between contributors. Further you cannot remove it for any derived work, only 100% new works. -Pieter _______________________________________________ zeromq-dev mailing list zeromq-dev@lists.zeromq.org http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev
